Jim has just purchased a new computer and it has made him think about how it works. He is particularly interested in how information is processed and stored in his computer. He has come to you for help.
-Jim wants to know what machine language instructions look like to the machine.You tell him they appear as ____.
A) an op code and operand
B) a series of 0s and 1s
C) basic instructions,such as add
D) all of the above

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Machine language instructions are represented as a series of 0s and 1s, which are the binary digits used by the computer to process and store information. This is the basic language that the computer understands and uses to execute instructions. The op code and operand are part of the instruction format, but they are represented as binary values. Basic instructions like add are part of higher-level programming languages that are translated into machine code by a compiler.

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